Anne

My tech support told me about HID Explorer.
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/HID_Explorer/HID_Explorer.html

It is a complete projet with C code which does something when I run it: It provides information on all HID devices. So 1. I can find out what I have, 2. I can see examples of a program I can run in xcode, debug etc.

Unfortunately, something is off with my device, HID explorer does not see it as an HID device. this was confirmed by running

ioreg -lw 0

2.7 meg of information! the main one being that there is no hid info in there at all for my device.

What next! This is like learning a language. There are folks out there who know it! Human beings have an amazing ability for languages. Helas!!! not all of us!